Maken-Ki! Two

First off, This is a 2nd season of sorts, What do i mean, Well I'll explain. As we all remember Maken-Ki Aired on 2011, So i bet you all are expecting the following:

1. How is Takeru related to Kodama Himegami
2. Who is Takerus father and his role in Maken-ki
3. Relationship Inaho and Haruko towards takeru.
4. Kamagari relations to Tenbi
5. What happened to the US Pop star.

Well, As you all know the 1st season was produced by AIC Studios, The 1st OVA as well, The 2nd OVA was AIC partnered with Xebec Studios. Xebec took command of the 2nd season, AIC was left out.

There are ... many ways to approach this so, I'll do it this way. We all know a basic anime plot, 1 - leads to 2, Then to 3, but these events do not happen in next day correlations, As we know entire weeks or semesters are skipped but we don't care as long as the story continues right.

Well, Maken-Ki 2, Though it is a continuation of sorts, but it is more of a Test season. This season has an entire perceptions change that literally goes 360. We viewers often get a bird view of plots, I know you're probably having a hard time following me, But please bear with me, Perception is not easily explained, So i'm doing my best. As i was saying, Normally we see plots and see characters develop from the outside in, Then we judge and make all sorts of suggestions

In real life, We all have our own little worlds inside our heads, There is no such thing as a human with organized thoughts, So our specie is pretty chaotic. However we organize those thoughts from time to time. Well, Maken-ki 2 explores CHAOS, It's a 10 Epsiode anime, and the viewer is to explore 10 episodes, with unseemly correlations, Imagine the Chaos of all the characters planted on film. Don't get me wrong, This season does posses an extraordinary amount of fan service, This however is a distraction of what you're truly seeing, In my view this season is too complex for your average anime viewer, So i can see why most people give it a crappy reception.

In this season, You the viewer takes a role on the anime, That's why most of you are confused. I'll give you three perspectives that this anime grants you as part of the anime it self, You're the background guy, The guy who seems intrigued by a group of teens and mishaps, I'm sure you guys have experienced this, You are walking somewhere then you come up to a noisy bunch, Now a lot of things can be happening to that group, but that's not what you see.

Next up, Is the buddy stalker, You no longer witness the bird eye perception, You're no longer on top, You don't see anything coming, and I know that bugs you, Each episode features a little group, or a character and you only see that character and experience that characters logic, Now the character you're stalking will get away with what he/she wants, As a result you also see the consequences of that logic. You guys see unrelated fan service, What is really happening, It's showing you, how fantasies could play out and chaos that can emerge.

3rd next is, You're the brain of the character. You see through the characters eyes, You take in the info how they take in the info. This is a great gamble that Xebec took as thought that this double-edge sword would have no repercussion, The viewers would either be distracted by the fan service or perceive the perspective that is being aired, But they forgot that this is the 2nd season of a romantic comedy, All the romance has dramastically reduced and this test has ate 10 episode space that was granted to a 2nd season of maken-ki, However this was also done to piss off the critics.

There were some critics that reviewed the first season and said the following "Maken-Ki offers nothing more than boobs and women underwear", Well this time around, They really offered that superficially, Kinda like, Well i hope you guys get this reference.

Try to think why EMINEM has always been miss judged for and critic for on his lyrics, Then listen to this song "Role Model", That is what i mean, So the critics would actually realize what something with no plot is...!, Though it does, But they're miniplots, But not as a whole. Well I hope you guys understand me.

I never watched the first season of Maken-Ki! but for some reason I found myself picking this up and watching it till the end. Probably because Aki Nijou is my waifu.

There is no decent story to be found here and that's ok with me because I didn't watch this show expecting any.

Art was great because it supported this series main selling point of fan service.

Sound was so-so. Opening and ending songs were ok. The sounds of breasts bouncing was most noticeable.

Character. Two words AKI NIJOU. Rest were forgettable.

Overall, I give this series a 7 because it did what it intended to do well: give ... enjoyable fan service.

tl;dr: A kind of not really sequel season that is very different from the first season in that it completely drops the overarching plot, but in the end is still about as good.

This is called the sequel to the first season of Maken-Ki, but I really don't think that's the right way to think about it. Rather, it seems to be a completely new work inspired by the same original work. Most of the cast of characters, the setting, and the general atmosphere for most of it is the same. However, it drops the plot threads from the first season completely, instead now focusing on ... smaller episode long adventures rather than anything that ties into an overarching story or any character or relationship development arcs. The episodes also focus on a different character each episode, with the main character from the first season barely in a lot of them. That alone is just enough to make it the standard filler that a lot of anime have, but what makes it feel like a completely different work is that it also drops a lot of the characters from the first season as well as the relationship development from characters that weren't dropped in such a way that it leads to major inconsistencies with the first season. Hence, its best to view it as a completely different work. Now as for the value of the work, ultimately despite how different it was I would have to say the quality was about the same. It was small episodic stories where the quality varied tremendously with a lot of hits and misses. Some were good, some were okay, some were just bad. The stronger episodes were generally those focusing on those that were important in the firsts season and the weaker episodes were generally those focusing on what felt like not as important characters. It also felt like it was getting repetitive at times. Though the last episode was completely different from the rest of the series and focusing on basically a completely new set of characters and I think the highlight of the series, so all of that isn't always true either. The focus very much was on being amusing and funny, similar to what it seems they were trying to do with the OVAs, but it felt subdued compared to them, and hence not as good. Ultimately, I'd say overall it was as good as the first season, just decent.

The animation, framing, and art were still great, even better than the first season though not as much as the OVAs. The OP and ED were still good. The soundtrack was decent but not particularly memorable. The specials were better.

Story - N/A
Art - Big Boobs and sexy panties everywhere
Sound - Terrible - Boob flops sound like someone smacking their thighs
Characters - Dumb big boobed chicks and 2 fake perverts who get into great situations but are to chicken to do anything (aka average anime per MC)
Enjoyment - If you like Big boobs and sluts this is for you

Overall - Unlike the first season this anime has no story advancement whatsoever. Maken-ki 2 is entirely Fanservice 1 shots with evey episode have big tits on screen for a decent amount of screen time.

(Episode 0 is my favorite because MC turns into a girl and ... does naughty things)